Euthanasia
Subtitle: the good of the patient, the good of society
By: Robert I. Misbin.
Publisher: University Publishing Group
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Frederick, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Medical ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects; Right to die -- Law and legislation
Table of contents: title: Physician responsibility for euthanasia / Peter Angelos; title: Doctors must not kill / Edmund D. Pellegrino; title: The quality of mercy : examination of the proposition "doctors must not kill" / Frederick R. Abrams; title: Euthanasia in the Netherlands : brief historical review and present situation / Else Borst-Eilers; title: What the law allows : legal aspects of euthanasia on request in the Netherlands / J.K.M. Gevers; title: A physician's responsibility to help a patient die / Pieter V. Admiraal; title: Active euthanasia : is mercy killing the killing of mercy? / D.J. Bakker; title: Should we copy the Dutch? : the Netherland's practice of voluntary euthanasia as a model for the United States / Margaret Pabst Battin; title: Impact of the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law on clinical practice in a cancer research institution / The Ethics Group of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.; title: Should a terminally ill patient have the right to demand resuscitation? / Howard Brody; title: Preserving the professional ethics : physicians are not obligated to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation / Nanette B. Hoffman; title: The hidden issue in futility judgments : justifying turning the traditional logic of beneficence on its head / Laurence B. McCullough; title: From "natural death" to "aid in dying" : reflections on the American judicial experience / Edward R. Grant and Clarke D. Forsythe; title: Sovereignty, stewardship, and the self : religious perspectives on euthanasia / Courtney S. Campbell; title: The historical and religious framework for euthanasia in the Netherlands / Titia H.C. Bueller; title: Physician-assisted suicide and the suicide machine / Ronald F. White; title: Federal policy regarding end-of-life decisions / Mitchell M. Handelsman.